I'd like to ask you how you were able to view your hard drive(s) when
you loaded the Live CD? I ask because last night I had a Win7 (64)
problem (NTLDR not found) and wanted to copy the email directory to one
of my other drives before I restored the drive with the previous image.
I could not find for the life of me how to use any program I could see
on the Linux desktop (PCLinuxOS, from 2007). And I looked at a lot of
programs that were loaded on the Live CD.
I would have thought there would be a simple file manager that I could
see my other 4 HDDs in the PC but I couldn't find these drives no matter
what I did. I suspect it was just because I'm completely ignorant of
Linux terminology. So there really isn't a simple File Manager like
there is in Windows that shows all one's hard drives so one can copy
needed information?
(BTW it turned out the BIOS changed from booting from the right drive to
one that didn't have an operating system. Good thing I found that out
before I restored the C:/ drive!)
John
I think maybe the reason I couldn't see the other HDD's may have been
because the system had to be hard shutdown, and the drives weren't
unmounted (dismounted?) correctly. I read a post on the Win 7 site
(
http://www.sevenforums.com/) that gave me some assistance and the idea
that the bios was trying to load the wrong HDD (thus the NTLDR Not Found
message). Today I downloaded the latest Ubuntu and loaded the LiveCD
and was able to see all the harddrives. And this website shows how to
get them to be seen even if the system was not shut down properly:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5qfk2e
Thanks for your comments.
